Showtime with Eddie Murphy, A personal favourite of mine, when serious cop played by De Niro gets forced onto a reality TV show and to work together with Eddie Murphy's character who likes being on a television show. A shame it's mediocre. It does lack adventure. More funny because of Eddie Murphy and maybe that is why.

Post by ace5150 on Jun 17, 2019 5:19:41 GMT

DeNiro has ruined his legacy by appearing in complete cr*p for the money.To me, his last great film was Sleepers in 1996. Cop Land and The Fan were decent enough, but apart from Ronin, just about everything he's done since then has been embarrassing. Meet The Parents was just about acceptable, but the spin-off films are truly dire.If you want the REAL DeNiro, try;

Godfather 2Mean StreetsTaxi DriverRaging BullDeer HunterKing of ComedyAngel HeartOnce Upon A Time in AmericaMidnight RunCape FearCasinoHeat

Post by daz on Jun 17, 2019 6:10:17 GMT

I read something about De Niro yesterday being worth around $500m. He apparently has a big business portfolio behind him, so I don't think he needed to do a lot of poorer films for the money, but I would imagine he would always be given top whack for any role he played, which means he doesn't do proper quality control.

Post by Arch Stanton on Jun 17, 2019 8:30:04 GMT

DeNiro has ruined his legacy by appearing in complete cr*p for the money.To me, his last great film was Sleepers in 1996. Cop Land and The Fan were decent enough, but apart from Ronin, just about everything he's done since then has been embarrassing. Meet The Parents was just about acceptable, but the spin-off films are truly dire.If you want the REAL DeNiro, try;

Godfather 2Mean StreetsTaxi DriverRaging BullDeer HunterKing of ComedyAngel HeartOnce Upon A Time in AmericaMidnight RunCape FearCasinoHeat

All ESSENTIAL viewing for films featuring DeNiro.

Good solid list that Ace.There’s some good films I would add to that list and some I would remove but that’s just personal preference:Even though I’m not as massive a fan as some are on here I’d add Goodfellas; then Jackie Brown, A Bronx Tale and Mad Dog and Glory (albeit Caruso completely steals that movie). Brazil, The Mission and The Untouchables missing? Also, This Boys Life. I seem to remember him playing a right nob head in that - he was good though.

Personally I’d drop Midnight Run, Heat, Casino (maybe) and Ronin.I didn’t like any of them that much. Casino was like Goodfellas but not as good iirc.

I am a big fan of Angel Heart. I watch that at least once a year.Probably many will go raging bull but personally I think Taxi Driver is probably his best performance. An extremely good film that.

Post by daz on Jun 17, 2019 11:07:35 GMT

The good thing about these threads is stuff pops up which I have never heard of, Angel Heart being one of them. Reading two guys on here rate it highly makes me go and track it down as I know it will be great.

Post by maninasuitcase on Jun 17, 2019 13:52:55 GMT

The good thing about these threads is stuff pops up which I have never heard of, Angel Heart being one of them. Reading two guys on here rate it highly makes me go and track it down as I know it will be great.

Post by ace5150 on Jun 17, 2019 17:07:47 GMT

Hear what your saying Arch, Bronx Tale and This Boys Life are brilliant, and I'd forgotten Mad Dog and Glory! (Agree, Caruso is fantastic in it, a is Bill Murray)Regarding Jackie Brown, he was one of many actors in that, and Bronx Tale he was almost a part player behind Chazz Palminteri

Post by ace5150 on Jun 17, 2019 17:26:01 GMT

The good thing about these threads is stuff pops up which I have never heard of, Angel Heart being one of them. Reading two guys on here rate it highly makes me go and track it down as I know it will be great.

A brilliant film, although I had to watch it twice to "get" the ending. When you watch it, you can see why Mickey Rourke was touted as the "new James Dean" before his spectacular fall out with the studios and directors.

Post by daz on Jun 20, 2019 6:24:40 GMT

you'll be like me westldner, in that you possibly haven't seen lots of films. I didn't really start watching films until in my mid to late 30s, but have to say I have been well educated on here in both film and TV.

Post by westldner on Jun 28, 2019 22:59:29 GMT

you'll be like me westldner, in that you possibly haven't seen lots of films. I didn't really start watching films until in my mid to late 30s, but have to say I have been well educated on here in both film and TV.

Yeah maybe, I play a lot more video games then what other watched in terms of films. :\ He hasn't appeared in video games, so, nothing in that median.

Post by daz on Jul 30, 2019 6:24:22 GMT

Angel Heart watched yesterday, an excellent film and found De Niro very menacing in his role with his finger nails freaking me out big time.

Thought Rourke was excellent in this also. Although she is not listed in the credits, was it Gillian Anderson who played the Nurse at the mental home when Angel was started looking for the guy Johnny? Looked an awful lot like her.

Post by Arch Stanton on Jul 30, 2019 18:51:07 GMT

Yes it is. I was positive it was the lovely Gillian Anderson, but after looking up her profile she would only have been around 19 when the film was made, but I honestly thought it was her.

Wilhoite was a criminally underused actress.She’s probably best remembered as the foul mouthed punk girl that Murphy (Charles Bronson) gets lumbered with in Murphy’s Law.I think she’s continued to mostly do TV work, although she was in the odd film now and again (Dream Demon, Witchboard and Roadhouse to name but a few I remember straight off) but she is a very distinctive actress no matter how brief her performances.